FRA - BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund
A closed-end fund run by BlackRock. Invests in bank loans. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Is anyone targeting this fund?
No - nobody has reported owning 5% or more of this fund.
Is the fund doing anything you need to act on?
Nothing right now.
What this means for you
No investor has reported owning 5% or more of this fund. That is the normal state for most closed-end funds.
Nothing is required of you. If that changes, the notice appears here within a day of being filed with the regulator.
What happened, and when
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Dec 5, 2025
The fund said it may sell new shares.
Original document → -
Oct 31, 2025
The fund said it may sell new shares.
Original document → -
July 30, 2025
The fund said it may sell new shares.
Original document →
About this fund
- Run by BlackRock Advisors, LLC. Part of the BlackRock-advised Funds fund family. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
- Size: about $403 million of holdings, as of June 30, 2026. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
- Borrowing: the fund borrows about 23% on top of its own money, as of June 30, 2026. Borrowed money makes gains and losses bigger. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
- Costs: 1% a year in management fees; 2.6% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
- Payouts: last fiscal year (ended Dec 31, 2025) the fund paid $1.49 a share. $0.91 of that was income; $0.58 was your own money back, not income. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
- Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (Dec 31, 2025): $12.10. The shares traded at $11.78, about 2.6% below that.
As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
Over the last two years the gap ranged from 7.3% below to 10.3% above. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document → - How the holdings did: up 1.4% over the last three months we have (April-June 2026), before the share price is taken into account. Over the last 12 months: +3.6%. As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
- How the holdings did over the fiscal year (ended Dec 31, 2025): the value of the holdings returned +5.8%. How the share price did: the shares returned -3.5% over the same year, counting payouts and the change in the market price. As of Dec 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
- First reported to the regulator in 2003.
What the fund holds
Mostly loans (93%), the rest shares and bonds. About 91% issued in the U.S.
- Invesco Senior Loan ETF - 3%
- State Street Blackstone Senior Loan ETF - 1.4%
- Alliant Holdings Intermediate LLC 2025 Term Loan B - 1.3%
- Hologic Inc 2026 USD Term Loan B - 1.1%
- TransDigm Inc 2023 Term Loan J - 1.1%
- Allied Universal Holdco LLC 2025 USD Term Loan B - 1%
- Beignet Investor LLC - 1%
- Jane Street Group LLC 2024 Term Loan B1 - 1%
- Chobani LLC 2025 Term Loan B - 0.9%
- Flutter Financing BV 2024 Term Loan B - 0.9%
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- Core & Main LP 2024 Term Loan D - 0.8%
- TKO Worldwide Holdings LLC 2026 Term Loan B - 0.8%
- Electronic Arts Inc USD Term Loan B - 0.8%
- Chamberlain Group Inc 2025 Term Loan B - 0.8%
- White Cap Buyer LLC 2024 Term Loan B - 0.8%
- HUB International Limited 2025 Term Loan B - 0.8%
- Genesee & Wyoming Inc (New) 2024 Term Loan - 0.8%
- CPI Holdco B LLC 2025 Add-on Term Loan B - 0.8%
- Four Seasons Hotels Limited 2025 Term Loan B - 0.8%
- Level 3 Financing Inc 2026 Term Loan B - 0.8%
- USI Inc 2024 Term Loan D - 0.8%
- Parexel International Corporation 2025 Repriced Term Loan B - 0.8%
- Belron Finance 2019 LLC 2026 Repriced Term Loan B - 0.7%
- EMRLD Borrower LP Term Loan B - 0.7%
- TK Elevator Midco GmbH 2025 USD Term Loan B - 0.7%
As of June 30, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
Details: all notices, events and fund facts
No notices from large investors on file.
| Date | What | Deadline | Document |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 2025 | May sell new shares | none | Original document → |
| Oct 31, 2025 | May sell new shares | none | Original document → |
| July 30, 2025 | May sell new shares | none | Original document → |
- Run by
- BlackRock Advisors, LLC
- Fund family
- BlackRock-advised Funds
- Exchange
- New York Stock Exchange
- Regulator's file number
- 811-21413
- Auditor
- Deloitte & Touche LLP
- Fiscal year end
- Dec 31, 2025
- Number of holdings
- 463
- Preferred share classes
- none
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